> Just my semiannual plea for some ext4 testing in the Fedora beta cycle. > > ext4 was a feature goal for F9, and it was close; it was relegated to a > secret-anaconda-handshake "iamanext4developer" to enable it for install > - largely due to lack of ext4 support in e2fsprogs. > > With the e2fsprogs-1.41.0 release in F10, we now have an ext4-capable > e2fsprogs, with working fsck, debugfs, etc as well as mkfs.ext4 and > mkfs.ext4dev to enable the new disk format features by default. > > For F10, the barrier to entry has been lowered by 14 characters - now > all you have to type on the boot prompt is "ext4" :) and when you go to > the custom partitioning screen, you'll get the option to create ext4 > filesystems at install time. > > I'd appreciate any and all testing, benchmarking & feedback that people > would be willing to do. Just getting more exposure in real-life > scenarios would be great. > > As with any filesystem, I wouldn't put your only copy of your most > precious data on it - use good sense about backups etc - but ext4 has > made good progress since F9 on both stability and performance, so have > at it! Do you have recommended FS creation parameters for SSDs? Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
